The administration and Republicans in Congress are due to unveil a tax plan on Wednesday. The plan has been developed over several months by six White House and congressional Republicans working behind closed doors and with no input from Democrats. Republicans, who control the White House and both chambers of Congress have been unable to deliver a...

Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told reporters after a closed-door luncheon in which the GOP decided not to hold the vote: "We haven't given up on changing the American health care system. Lindsey Graham, a sponsor of the latest, last-ditch effort, said Republicans are going to fulfill the promise they've made to voters and the GOP base for the past seven years.

The repeal-and-replace bill's authors promised to try again at a later date, while President Donald Trump railed against "certain so-called Republicans" who opposed the GOP effort. The GOP's predicament was summed up bluntly by Sen. Absolutely, "he said after a GOP lunch attended by Vice President Mike Pence.

BERLIN, Sept 24- Germany's Social Democrats vowed to return to the opposition and push themes of social justice as they remake their party after winning less than 21 percent of the vote in Sunday's election, the worst result in their post-war history. Germany's oldest political party and one of the buttresses of the European left for 150 years, the SPD struggled...

Senate Republicans are adding billions of dollars to their teetering health care bill, hoping to win support from GOP senators who may be opposing the legislation. John McCain of Arizona, Kentucky's Rand Paul and Texas' Ted Cruz have all expressed opposition to the bill. If the Texas Republican sticks to that stand, GOP leaders will have little hope that their...

WASHINGTON— Republican opposition to the last-ditch GOP health care bill swelled to near-fatal numbers Sunday as Sen. White House legislative liaison Marc Short and Sen. Already two GOP senators, Rand Paul of Kentucky and John McCain of Arizona, have said they oppose the legislation.

WASHINGTON— Provisions shoehorned into the Republican health care bill dangle extra money for Alaska and Wisconsin, home states of one GOP senator whose vote party leaders desperately need and another who co-sponsored the legislation, according to analysts who've studied the legislation. Aides say the legislation is still changing as leaders hunt the 50...

Sept 20- Democratic U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday urged the Federal Election Commission to require transparency for social media advertising after Russians bought U.S. political ads on Facebook Inc in an alleged attempt to influence the 2016 elections. Some 20 Democrats from the Senate and House of Representatives signed the letter. Russia has denied...

Sept 20- Democratic U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday urged the Federal Election Commission to require transparency for social media advertising after Russians bought U.S. political ads on Facebook Inc in an alleged attempt to influence the 2016 elections. Some 17 Democrats from the Senate and House of Representatives signed the letter. Russia has denied...